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Petition update, 26 February 2008

More details from petition creator

Forcing people to act against their consciences, in this case asking Catholics to allow the adoption of children to same sex couples, would mean discrimination on the grounds of belief

Current signatories

Daniel Cole, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Lee Jones
• Sean Paul Kennedy
• M JONES
• Nigel Reilly
• G .L. Degg
• James Murphy
• Brian Stanley Gilbraith
• Amy Chichester
• Jack Valero
• Roy Potter
• Cheryl Dennison
• Tim Skinner
• Brigid Hilton
• Corban Rushworth
• Barry Hartness
• Shaun Bailham
• Angela Smith
• colin nicklen
• Daniel Caine
• Duncan Harvey
• Kevin Burdett
• Thomas Martin O,Leary
• M. Harvey
• Csroline Maria Elizabeth Yates
• Margaret Bull
• Michael Bull
• Andrew Brady
• RIchard Leggett
• Andrew Dale
• J Lyons
• Anne-Marie Brander
• Alan Turner
• Robin Williams
• James Copeland
• Esther Chanana
• David Barry Whittall
• Margaret Anne Whittall
• majella baldwin
• david baldwin
• Edward Liddell
• maria chambers
• mary jo chambers
• Tony Ruane
• Rachel Elizabeth Romain
• Colin Gleadall
• David Wright
• Nigel Friswell
• Rob Spiller
• collette chambers
• Peter Carvalho
• joanne francis
• emma setchfield
• jeanknight
• Simon Knowles
• Sabrina Pacheco
• Angela Gates
• Tracey Humphries
• CarolineDinnage
• Brian John Melia
• John Ellery
• JEAN MARSDEN
• Brendan Cuffe
• chris newman
• Harry Walkeden
• Faye Lyons
• Holly Knowles
• Alan Davis
• Andrew Tarrant
• H Kim
• Joel Curry
• michael cooke
• angela cooke
• Mark carvalho
• Andrea J Chee
• ELIZABETH FISHER
• Robert John Tilley
• Nicola Priest
• David Roberts
• Mark Lee
• Mark Hindle
• G John Crumpton
• Angela Pelosi
• John Colligan
• Dick Twomey
• David Awdas
• Denis Breasley
• Tom Power
• Kevin Wall
• Philip T Stevens
• Peter Purdue
• rachel pugh
• Robert Francis Doran
• Brian Hopwood
• ben ecclestone
• Sharon E Genge
• Michael Brooks
• Richard Smith
• John Duck
• DEBORAH HILL
• Thomas Boatwright
• Nicola Dyer
• Sarah Divilly Bastiani
• Bill Blake
• Julie Walsh
• raymond butcher
• Rachel Rogan
• Catherine Walker
• bernard loveland
• Nigel Brennan
• Daniel Cichocki
• Karen Richardson
• Tony Cullen
• Rosemary Neale
• Gerard Saunders
• DAVID C THOMAS
• Mrs Maureen Tizzard
• David Henstridge
• Michaela Spittles
• Harvey Steven
• Kevin Lee
• Allen Taylor
• william hodkinson
• Russ Randall
• mary barnes
• Josephine Scullion
• Greg Smith
• Ian Logan
• A Bryant
• Carl Barker
• Joseph Barr
• Linda Morgan
• Andrew Stames
• Robert James
• Anne Dillon
• William N Smith
• Joanna Debenham
• j Breeze
• Paul chapman
• Stuart Bartz
• kevin vincent
• Robert Lobley
• pat acaster
• c bailey
• Colyn Vickers
• kerrie - anne lindsay
• Paul Elliot
• Geraldine Henstridge
• Rihana
• Peter Hayden
• Anthony Sutton
• Michael Hartley
• Leonor Hartley
• chris sloan
• John Buckingham
• Thomas Bowman
• Andrew Cooper
• HEATHER STIRLING
• Damian Dillon
• Sharon O'Connor
• Marion Harrison
• Gordon David Griffiths
• John Burnett
• christine lennox
• Stephen Chambers
• Chris Bailey
• Paul Nayagam
• stephen patrick fitzgerald
• B D Stead
• Brian Henderson
• Dr. V.Graffagnino
• Nicola Taylor
• Kenneth Edwards
• Joshua Hilton
• Nancy Nicola
• Andrew Pillai
• Thomas Costello
• Ricardo Torres
• Joyce Burton
• John Selby
• Tania Parslow
• Wendy Sheffield
• Adam Foxton
• Maryann Davison
• Roger James Mitchell
• James Donnellan
• Calum Courtney
• Stephen Vink
• W.G.Armbruster
• Reda Fares
• Livio Quintavalle
• Peter Carr
• Adrian Clark
• Susan Brazell
• M Knight
• michelle johnson
• Michael Stone
• Barry Streater
• Joaephine Paul
• Gillian Taylor
• jan masters
• Francis Hindle
• JOHN SYLVESTER
• Alan Passmore
• John Beighton
• samuel silcock
• Susan Evans
• Geoffrey Stuart Hill
• Helen Moorhouse
• John Preston
• Alfred Cook
• Ross England
• Joel Jackson
• CJ
• Philip Glover
• Julie Gath
• Andy Reilly
• rosemary barrett
• Jane Roper
• Kathleen Heywood
• Corrin Logsdail
• alison entwistle
• Patrick Galavin
• Maria Darrer
• Leslie Dix
• Arthur Duffy
• Vincent Molloy and 36 members of St Oswalds J & P Group
• Tony Cowell
• Denise Pursall
• Paul Carlin
• Patrick Sheehy
• Dr Rebecca Livesey
• Joan Parkinson
• william sheerin
• Janet Jeffers
• Sheila Murray
• Josephine James
• Stuart George Parkinson
• Janice Dunbar
• Carol Manton
• Paul Pilling
• Monica Ovel
• M Redmond
• Anne Cullen
• James Mulholland
• Diana Goatly
• Mary Beskeen
• Susan Tinney
• S hurst
• Stella Morris
• Mrs I Moss
• Em.C.Spiteri
• John Deam
• Barbara Hewitt
• Monica Gallagher
• mario dimitrio donadio
• Mick Breslin
• Mary Breslin
• Mrs M. Di Falco
• veronicaayres
• Paul Golik
• Amanda Macchi
• Henry von Blumenthal
• Gordon Farrar
• Cathy Harrison
• Andrew Ward
• Karyn Ward
• Jude
• David Gleave
• Dr. M Northeast
• John Delaney
• Deborah Croxford
• Julie Bruce
• Mark Sowerby
• Melanie Levy
• Rodger & Terry GERMANY
• Neil Jones
• Andrew Brown
• andrew crombie
• Ian Hunter
• David C.P. Corkish
• Mick Breslin
• Ron Barton
• Rachael Mason
• Patrick Gomes
• ANA HODKINSON
• Maureen Stevens
• Christine M Dann
• Hector Battarbee
• andy barber
• Johanna Kaschke
• Daniel Roberts
• darryl maxwell
• Nick Barton
• mary kidd
• Paul Burley
• lynda lambe
• Antony Hudson
• Thomas Williams
• Simon Garrett
• Alan Rigby
• Andree Rodriguez
• Des
• Agata Platek
• Hannah-grace Murray
• P Finn
• Gavin Rice
• Philip Ahlquist
• Gregory Tucker
• M Roarty
• Timothy Bemrose
• alan davies
• Mary Woodley
• Laura Carson
• peter clark
• Rebecca Fleming
• Elisabeth Erica Townend
• Samantha Hill
• Martin Clarke
• john webb
• Patricia Bowman
• t.p.fitzpatrick
• Simon Goldsmith
• Rowan O'Neill
• Luke Beirne
• deborah page
• E. page
• s page
• KEVIN REGAN
• Chris Brown
• M O'Donohue
• Daniel Fanning
• Bernard Corcoran
• Jan Keating
• g ashcroft
• Penny haskell
• Mark Evans
• Thomas Pirovano
• Barbara Hawkes
• Roba Alghabra
• Phillip Anderton
• Mark McCaffrey
• alison bateman
• Matthew Gavigan(Liverpool) Respect al faiths
• Richard Duncan
• p.a.k
• d.k
• Chris Page
• john lenton
• David Turner
• Margaret Petty
• Joseph lynch
• Cathy Edwards
• P.Y. Fairservice
• Christopher Wildman
• Gerard Smith
• Adrian Orr
• emma clarke
• Peter McDonnell
• alan clarke
• Barry Reynolds
• David King
• David Dunne
• The Pope says to the undersigned ''stop being so homophobic''
• Jim Willetts
• Mrs Val Winks
• H Kelliher
• Michael Surtees
• Steven Link
• Sarah Hammond
• Dave Kimber
• "You who are far from God's mercy, convert that God may not become deaf to your prayers"
• Ivor Davies
• Karen Shippin
• Robert Whyte
• Stephen Griffiths
• Lee Whitcher
• Sean Haran
• William W Ness
• michael loughlin
• sam wackett
• Jeremy Savage
• Fiona Williams
• Steven Gibson
• MARY O'BRIEN BOYLE
• The undersigned names support small minded views & Homophobia
• David Moore
• JOHN ORD
• John Jones
• Matthew Dore
• Harriet Ranson
• Catherine O'Connell
• Paul Benton
• David Gutteridge
• Grace Kilday
• Anthony Moore
• Dean Hetherington
• wendy summers
• Brian Steele
• Matthew Gibbard
• Theo Theodorou
• Grace Martin
• David Edward Rocks
• Tracy Jane Woods
• and you call yourselves loving people of god?
• P Grace
• ken shuttlewood
• B. Montgomery
• L.Montgomery
• Mary Kenefick
• domitila thompson
• edward thompson
• Andrew Thompson
• H. Jackson
• Simon Kirby
• Dick King
• S King
• James
• Francis P. Maxwell
• Keith Miles
• Stephen McConville
• David Kirk
• Brendan O'Mahony
• D Songer
• s.j.frost
• PETER HOWARD
• Stuart Leather
• Gerard Hawkes
• daniel bailey